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by Kinnard 11y ago
I think these points are only radicalized by things like Bitcoin which will have an effect like the silver coming in from the "New World" . . . except more eerie . . . or ethereal: Ethereum's currency is called "ether&qu
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Perhaps there's some insight from cognitive science which explains why humans may have a tendency to do this.
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Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career(ted.com)
3 points by Kinnard 11y ago|0 comments
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Wonder why this isn't on the front page . . . a simple points/time since posted doesn't add up to me . . . IMHO HN is too opaque.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Check out narremes, they're like memes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narreme I'm wondering what it would take to program a story-teller? I'm thinking NLP + Narremes + ML . . .
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by Kinnard 11y ago
I remember meeting these guys ~3yrs ago. Ridesharing was new, no one anywhere had heard of Uber. Guess it just goes to show, it doesn't always matter who is first.
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Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?(theatlantic.com)
4 points by Kinnard 11y ago|1 comments
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Don't you love it when that happens.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
This looks like a very creatively elegant solution to a problem a lot of people have been talking and thinking about as well as working on . . . Wish it were open source.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
The vigorous debate happening in the Bitcoin space is a sign of health. The same types of battles happened in the early days of the Internet.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
No, you should build one.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
I think if you read the article you will see my title makes sense.
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A Healthier, More Sensible Gun Conversation(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by Kinnard 11y ago|4 comments
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Jada Pinkett debates boycotting Oscars over only white actors being nominated(foxnews.com)
2 points by Kinnard 11y ago|0 comments
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Beautiful.
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Why Bitcoin Needs 21 Inc to Deliver in 2016(coindesk.com)
2 points by Kinnard 11y ago|0 comments
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Funny fact, this is used as Lorem Ipsum in a lot of npm packages.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Still seems useful to me.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Very enlightening post about performance. I now feel like I have a framework to tackle this.
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Performance is a Feature(blog.codinghorror.com)
1 points by Kinnard 11y ago|3 comments
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Cryptocurrency bugs can be quite expensive. Maybe that will make software engineering more like other types of engineering.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
How do you feel this merits a flag?
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Apparently you are correct. My bad.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
I just noticed this for the first time. There are so many little subtle things about hacker news.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
I think it's a significant hidden feature which affects the shape of the community and also how the rewards of making it to the first page are allocated. There's essentially a class of hn users with more power.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
I don't quite understand what you mean.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
I think the interesting/compelling point is that there actually IS downvoting on hackernews.
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Of note: hacker news actually does have downvoting, you have to reach a karma threshold that keeps getting moved. Last I heard it was 500.
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The Value of Downvoting or How Hacker News Gets It Wrong (2009)(blog.stackoverflow.com)
27 points by Kinnard 11y ago|36 comments
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by Kinnard 11y ago
Why?

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